@nospam: "greetings,
i think my dendrobium may be in need of a repot. it's grown 4x it's size 
since i got it 3 years ago. in january 2007, it had over 35 flowering spikes 
with lots of tiny fragrant flowers. currently, it has put out two new 
flowering spikes and has sprouted about 10 to 12 keiki's.
my questions are:
*  should i repot?
*  is now a good time to repot?
*  should i split the plant in half? it's grown rather large. i count 47 
canes,
    7 of them are new growths.
*  does it do well in S/H?
thanks in advance for any replies! "
    @mormodes: "I don't do well with dendrobiums.  So I, too, am looking for any responses.
K Barrett
"holly" <email_address> wrote in message 
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    @foo: "There are different kinds of dendrobiums, I would never offer any advice 
without at least some vague idea of which ones you're dealing with.
-danny"
    @nospam: "hi Danny,
i'm not sure what it is - the id tag doesn't list a name,
but here is a link to a pic:
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thanks
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    @jvarigos: "Hi Holly
Looks like an Australian dendrobium hybrid with some D. kingianum in its 
heritage.
I would pot it up into a larger pot and let it spread out. I wouldn't break 
it up as you will get quite a good specimen plant over the next few years.
Now would be a good time to repot - spring in NH.  Re the keikis, once they 
have some reasonably sized roots, pick them off and pot up. They make 
wonderful presents.
Don't have any experience with S/H query - perhaps Ray can advise.  In 
nature they can experience long periods of drought so the plants are used to 
receiving no water for extended periods.  I grow most of my native 
dendrobiums outside under a jacaranda tree except for the more 
subtropical/tropical species.  My D. kingianums are mounted on horizontal 
tree fern slabs enabling them to spread out as they grow.  Avoids having to 
repot them but then again, I don't have to bring them inside during winter.
~John
Melbourne, Australia
"holly" <email_address> wrote in message 
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    @nobody: "On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:54:44 -0700, John Varigos wrote
John's advice sounds pretty good to me. I have a D. kingianum which started 
out in a 4" pot and is now thriving in S/H in a 3 gallon plastic bucket. 
Takes a lot of LECA, but you won't have to repot just to refresh the medium!
Parenthetically, I have three other dendrobes doing well in S/H.
Tom
Walnut Creek, CA
Nikon D200"
    @mormodes: "I mostly have Dends like Roy Tokunaga and other of the alexandrae types. 
I've been keeping them in small pots, tightly potted.  I moved a Den Nellie 
Morely into a larger 6" clay pot and am trying straight lava rock with it, 
mostly for the weight.  The plant is huge.  When I repotted it I saw I'd 
placed it in larger pots without removing the older pot twice, so it was in 
a 3" square plastic pot in a 4-5" plastic pot inside a 6" clay pot....  I 
have a Peng Seng that I'm trying in my cattleya bark mix.... fine bark, lava 
rock/perlite about a 3:1:1 ratio.  Plastic pot.  I placed a sulaweisiense 
(glomeratum, what have you) and an obtusisepalum in the same sort of mix. 
The vendor potted these in clay pot and sphagnum moss, but the moss had gone 
very sour...so into the bark and rock mix...we'll see if its too open for 
their roots.
That's what I hate.  I move plants into what I *think* should work and then 
worry and fret that they'll go downhill because they are acclimated to teh 
old mix.  Granted usually they improve (even in the short term) becasue they 
are no longer in the crap they were in....but I worry that teh mix 
ultimately isn't what they require in nature.  Like too open/airy for roots.
Well, we'll see what happens.
K
"John Varigos" <email_address> wrote in message 
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    @nospam: "Thanks everyone for your responses. I'll put it in a bigger pot and perhaps 
give the S/H a try, i think i have enough PA on hand for it. Think i'll try 
one of the keikis on a fern slab too as Tom mentioned... Good luck K with 
moving your dends.
Just curious tho, what is a 'specimen plant'?
Thanks again!
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